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Cooperatives & Communities
MSC advises Emyooga groups to build culture of saving
LIRA– The Uganda Microfinance Support Centre [MSC] has called upon Emyooga groups in Lango and Acholi sub-regions to develop a culture of saving and paying back their loans. According to Mable Nabadda,…
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International
Value addition: Nwoya livestock farmers ask for govt support
NWOYA –Nwoya livestock keepers want government to help them to start adding value to the animal products as opposed to selling their live animals to middlemen. The farmers under Pamin-Owot Livestock Cooperative…
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News
Hunger in Otuke: Leaders to collect 25,000kg of relief food
OTUKE-Leaders of Otuke district are to mobilise relief food and planting materials to be distributed to poor households after two people in Okwongo Town council reportedly died due to hunger that has…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Bunyoro livestock farmers worried over lack of water and pasture
KIKUUBE-Cattle farmers in Bunyoro Sub-region are struggling to find water and pasture for their animals, following the dry spell that has hit the area for the past three months. The most affected…
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Cooperatives & Communities
AfDB approves more than US$1bln for emergency food production plan
ABIDJANI-The African Development Bank [AfDB] Group has approved 24, fast-track programmes to help Africa mitigate rising food prices and inflation caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine, climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic.…
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Acholi MPs castigate OPM over delays in emergency response
GULU– Members of Parliament from Acholi Sub-region under the umbrella of Acholi Parliamentary Group [APG] have lashed out at the Office of the Prime Minister [ OPM ] for being slow in…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lango leaders caution govt on hurrying PDM processes
OYAM– A section Lango leaders have raised concern over the implementation of the Parish Development Model [PDM], saying the speed at which government is implementing some activities must be checked, especially if…
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Acholi union struggling to revive primary cooperatives
KITGUM – In1960s, farmers, mainly cotton growers from primary cooperative societies, in the original Kitgum district formed a union under their umbrella East Acholi Cooperative Union Limited [EACU]. However, the division of…
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Rwenzori farmers get modern implements to boost production
KABAROLE- The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries [MAAIF] through National Advisory Agricultural Services [NAADS] has distributed modern agricultural equipment worth Shs 49 billion to farmers in Rwenzori Sub-region to boost…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Focus on quality standards, Bunyoro produce dealers urged
HOIMA– Traders dealing in agricultural produce in Bunyoro Sub-region have been told to adhere to quality standards if they are to benefit from the market offered by the oil and gas industry.…
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